It’s been a year and a half since random drug tests began at Brunswick County Schools, and officials are proud to report few employees have flunked them.<br>”We feel it may be a deterrent” to drug use, said Terry Chestnutt, head of human resources.

From the first time they met, David Rowell knew he didn’t want to lose sight of Aimee Akers. A total stranger, she helped rescue him from the wreckage of his taxi cab last summer and then talked to him, keeping him awake until an ambulance arrived.